Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University
Amal Hamada is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. Her research interests include gender issues in the Middle East with a special focus on women’s daily strategies for their lives and on conflict-related issues. She directs the women’s studies unit and is the academic coordinator of the Professional Master’s in Gender and Development, Cairo University.

Rana Sukarieh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut. Her research focuses on solidarity relations at multiscalar and multidimensional levels. She is currently working on two projects. Her book project, tentatively titled Palestine Solidarity in Canada: Temporality, Generations, and Transnationalism explores the interplay between endogenous and exogenous dynamics that shape the trajectory of building sustained solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Toronto. Her new research project, Solidarity Economy Initiatives and Social Imaginaries at Times of Severe Crisis: An Arab Regional Perspective, is a comparative research project that analyzes the various facets of solidarity economy initiatives in Lebanon and Tunisia during times of ongoing crisis. She published in the Journal of Social Movement Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, The Public Source, The Conversation, among others.

is a distinguished Jordanian writer, academic, and philosopher born in Jerusalem in 1957. With a rich career spanning decades, he has contributed extensively to the fields of Arab philosophy, intellectual thought, and literary criticism. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Amman Cultural Magazine and was a research fellow at the Center for Future Studies at Philadelphia University (2014–2018). Tawfiq currently presides over the Jordanian Critics Association and is a member of the Jordanian Philosophical Society. He has published numerous articles and research papers in leading Arab journals and has authored several acclaimed books on philosophy, cultural criticism, and Arab intellectual heritage. His contributions have been recognized with multiple awards, including the Philadelphia University Prize for Best Book in the Humanities and the Habib Al-Zayyoudi Poetry Award.

Assistant professor at the Faculty of International Relations and Diplomatic Studies at the National University of Sudan. She studies feminist studies, international relations and the role of non-international organizations. She has published a book on democracy and political parties in Sudan, in addition to several research papers and articles.

Architect and university professor. An activist and researcher of public policies and their repercussions on Tunisian society and the local economy. She is currently active within the Working Group for Food Sovereignty, which she contributed to establishing in late 2017. It is a group concerned with the category of farmers and the rural field, and it adopts the research and recherche-action methodology in its study of reality, its interpretation, and its attempt to change it with those concerned and the right holders.

Former parliamentarian, trade union and associative activist, a biologist and expert in health, water rights and solidarity sectors. She participated in a number of publications, about Alternative economy and Social justice.

Researcher in political economy, journalist and writer. His research focuses on the political economy of Egypt and the Middle East and North Africa, social justice, deepening social inequality, and the erosion of the middle classes in the Arab world. Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century was translated into Arabic with Salma Hussein, and editor of The Egyptian Economy in the Twenty-First Century, published by Dar Al-Maraya in 2017.

General Coordinator (Lebanon) of the Arab Resources Workshop and Director of the Arab Network for Early Childhood Development. One of the founders of the Association of Professionals and Professionals. He has experience working on public policies in several Arab countries.